This eight year old girl fails to hit the limelight very often. She’s too predictable, too even-tempered, too behind-the-scenes. Lovely, edible, tasty scenes like the fudge cookies she made this week. Twice. Or the beer bread she mixed up and baked for a side to our soup the other night. Or cooking up a pot […]
Grocery shopping, revamped.
Once every week and a half to two weeks, I go grocery shopping. Almost always, I go during the day with all the kids. We have a good rhythm, and things usually go fairly well. Lately, though, I’ve been less than pleased with how things have gone. Kids asking me to buy stuff, hiding in […]
Baby’s got skills.
He’s not so sure he’s impressed with the upright world quite yet, but Pierce joined the land of all things vertical this week. Go, Baby Boy. Next up: The land of wearing pants during waking hours. It’s overrated.
Goat naming.
The goats have names. Hezekiah, Lamentations, and Pearl join Snow, Coffee, Cream, and Munch in our barn of friendly goats. Those babies are the highlight of the day for the kids. Goat chores just got longer. Pretty sure it’s not just work that’s being done up there. I picked the names Hezekiah and Pearl. I’m […]
Expert goat chaser, at your service.
The girls go to co-op early for dance practice. So as we’re on the porch waving good-bye as they drive away in a friend’s car, Ruby announces, “The goats are out.” Really? Now? When the girls are gone and I have to take all four kids ages four and under up the hill to chase […]
Organization.
As a kid, I’d have said I was organized. My bedroom was always clean, just as my mother. I was good at keeping things picked up. My children are good at putting things down. While some of them have neat-ish tendencies, give the lot of them ten minutes and a whole lot of mess can […]
What we found in the barn this morning:
One baby girl and twin baby boys makes three new baby goats born in our barn this morning – from two different does. So, so fun! So far, Eden named one of the baby boys Lamentations. Charlotte just thinks they are a real live snuggle blanket.
This one’s for you, Dad.
After a discussion with my dad during which I realized I’ve done roughly 300 extra loads of laundry this year. About a year ago my two middle children quit wearing diapers – and I started doing laundry. Now, with plans to rearrange furniture… details to come… Dad suggested I make pull-ups of sorts. I haven’t […]
Time’s up. Time in. Time out. Or something.
Our new chore cards are working wonderfully. The house is maintaining better than ever before. A good half hours’ warning is politely requested before dropping by… but we’re making progress. Overheard this morning: “That’s your 10-minute speed clean, Ruby.” “Well, Sterling, I call it my time-out.” Ruby really likes the speed clean. Can’t you tell?
Supper prep conversations.
I stepped out of the kitchen while making supper, leaving Ruby at the realm. When I walked back into the kitchen, Ruby was coming out of the laundry room. “I thought you were stirring this?” I said. “I was, but I couldn’t for a minute. I was doing laundry,” she says as she throws the […]
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